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Emotions as Original Existences - A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Emotions as Original Existences - A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book defends the much-disputed view that emotions are what
Hume referred to as 'original existences': feeling states that have
no intentional or representational properties of their own. In
doing so, the book serves as a valuable counterbalance to the now
mainstream view that emotions are representational mental states.
Beginning with a defence of a feeling theory of emotion, Whiting
opens up a whole new way of thinking about the role and centrality
of emotion in our lives, showing how emotion is key to a proper
understanding of human motivation and the self. Whiting establishes
that emotions as types of bodily feelings serve as the categorical
bases for our behavioural dispositions, including those associated
with moral thought, virtue, and vice. The book concludes by
advancing the idea that emotions make up our intrinsic nature - the
characterisation of what we are like in and of ourselves, when
considered apart from how we are disposed to behave. The conclusion
additionally draws out the implications of the claims made
throughout the book in relation to our understanding of mental
illness and the treatment of emotional disorders.
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